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...come as a tourist. He had flown to London four weeks ago to demand that the third clause of the Atlantic Charter (right of self-determination of nations) be applied to Burma too. Through London for a full day he had strutted in silken toga and colored skirt, silk kerchief on his head, then had switched to European garb because of London's cold. Last fortnight he saw Prime Minister Churchill, for whom he had brought a box of Burma's Kipling-famed cheroots...
Recently a U.S. officer found he could not buy a can of beans. Preoccupation Ice land had a supply of fairly cheap silk stockings, but woman-wise British and U.S. soldiers snapped them up, used them as men do everywhere. By last week Ice land's women could not buy silk stockings at their own stores...
NAVY DEPARTMENT PROHIBITS COMPLETE DETAILS HOWEVER CAN SAY THIS: TWO PARACHUTES WERE USED ACCORDING TO DOCTRINE. ON TAKING OFF WITH THE FORWARD IMPETUS OF TRANSPORT PLANE [WHEN THE FOULING OCCURRED] EMERGENCY PARACHUTE BROKE LOOSE FROM . . . HARNESS AND STREAMED OUT THE EXTENT OF SHROUD LINE; SILK OF THE CHUTE REMAINED INTACT. I PULLED IN THIS CHUTE SEVERAL TIMES WITH THE INTENT OF USING IT; HOWEVER, BECAUSE OF BEING SUSPENDED ONLY BY ONE KNEE, I DID NOT OPEN IT. WITH AN ATTEMPTED USE THE OPENING SHOCK WOULD HAVE CATAPULTED ME OUT OF THE HARNESS. HAD TO KEEP MY KNEES LOCKED IN ORDER...
...Priorities Chief Donald Nelson last week told a Congressional committee that 1,378,000 Ib. of copper, some of it "undoubtedly Axis-owned," lay in U.S. warehouses, untouchable despite the acute copper shortage. Not only will that copper now be requisitioned, but also carloads of machinery, steel, silk, rubber, tin plate, manganese and other hoarded, hidden and frozen inventories. Economic Defense Board and OPM agents combed New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco freight yards for them last week (TIME...
...Dutch concerns have stocked her with enough gasoline for a year. Furthermore, rumors are of ten heard that our oil companies are still sending crude fuel which is cracked upon arrival. We are still shipping scrap iron, tin plate, cotton, aluminum, lumber, and hides, and are still buying silk...